Pith Number

pith:VMRCOUQP

pith:2014:VMRCOUQPICKLBJDFMMDQYDDC7U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Palomar 5 and its Tidal Tails: A Search for New Members in the Tidal Stream

Elizabeth Maunder, Gary Da Costa, Pete Kuzma, Stefan Keller

arxiv:1411.0776 v2 · 2014-11-04 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMRCOUQPICKLBJDFMMDQYDDC7U}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:41:35.473774Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab2227520f4094b0a46563070c0c62fd1e805aa9b12b220f8d071f62a8b6d579

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.0776 · arxiv_version: 1411.0776v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.0776 · pith_short_12: VMRCOUQPICKL · pith_short_16: VMRCOUQPICKLBJDF · pith_short_8: VMRCOUQP

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VMRCOUQPICKLBJDFMMDQYDDC7U \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ab2227520f4094b0a46563070c0c62fd1e805aa9b12b220f8d071f62a8b6d579

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ac7fa177eb93acb8d339c85a562e4b92d4d562086eec4fb8f8ecdabfddb04c69",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-04T03:38:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1bb3dbc5aa02d704b583ef558bdbc767d0019fa0e6a5563548ee4f9455fe2f98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.0776",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}